Hot and hyped: inside the strange launch of the Nothing Phone 1 - The Verge

Nothing promised the world ahead of the launch of its debut smartphone, the Phone 1. But what emerged wasn’t quite the consumer tech revolution Nothing promised. It was a smartphone.

There was a lot riding on Nothings Phone 1 launch this week. For months, the companys CEO Carl Pei, who rose to prominence as one of the co-founders of OnePlus, has been making big promises about Not… [+11735 chars]

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